Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-07-09
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.

Walter c. Pierce has been commissioned d
postmaster at North Vienna, Me.
The Manchester ship canal bill! passed the
House of Lords at London, Friday.
John Q, Adams of Chester, VT, aged 63,
was killed by being thrown from load of
hay in his field Friday,
Oscar VI. Kelly, who shot and killed his
wife, at Mccoy, Polk county, Ore, six weeks
ago, was lynched Thursday morning by a
mob.
4 farmhouse at Ardnahoe, Buteshire, Sec
tol, vas burned Thursday night and three
women and four men servants were burned
to death.
Henry Scharf, the veteran actor. has been
missing from his home in New York since
Saturday. He is 65 years old and subject to
heart disease.
Ben Halliday of Portland, Ore, of the
pony express and overland stage fame, was
dying last night at st. Vincent hospital. He
is Go years old.
About one hundred members of the New
Hampshire club dined at Hotel Wentworth,
Ne~castie, N. H.. Friday. After dinner sew
eral speeches were made.
The Ameer of Afghanistan, has nailed to
the CaDdaway gate proclamation offering
Tree pardon anu remission OF TWO years taxes
to all rebels who surrender.
The Fidelity Title and Deposit Co., of
Newark, n. j., today appointed receiver
for the Oxford Copper & Sulphur Co. The
capital of the company is 81 100000.
Rt. Hon. John G. Hubbard, member OF
Parliament for London, has been elevated to
the peerage, and the seat thus vacated will
be contested by Chss. Barring the banker.
Capt Oliver Potter, an old whaling captain
of Newport, r. l.. died Friday aged 50 years.
He was a strong anti-slavery man before the
war and an intense unionist during the war.
At 2.45 Friday afternoon, at New Haven,
CT, the grand jury found true the bill against
Peter Coffee, charged with the murder of
Chas. WAY, the station agent at Stony Creek,
CT.
Capt. Samuel P. Griffin, aged 81 years,
formerly of the United States navy and ia.
nous Arctic navigator, died July at Aspin
wall, where he had resided for seven years
past.
In London, Friday, Princess Victoria, wife
of the German Crown Prince, presented the
commencement prizes at Norwood school for
the blind u. S. Minister Phelps was pres
ent and made an address.
;aMrs. Martha b. Richards, widow of the late
Seth Richards, merchant and prominent citi
zen of Newport, and stepmother of Hon
Dexter Richards, died Thursday night al
Hopkinton, n. H., aged 80 years.
In commemoration of the jubilee year a
royal proclamation was made public at Hall.
fax, Friday, granting pardons to all deserters
from her majesty's land forces who shall re-
port by letter to the proper authorities.
The mother of "Doc" Levi Wilson of the
famous Wilson Moen mystery, has died al
East Thompson. CT, the causes being given
as ''old age, apoplexy and worriment" She
made no confession concerning Lewis birth
before her decesse.
Frederick L. Ames, president of the stocl
company owing the Advertiser and Record OF
Boston, denies positively that these paper.
have been sold to Charles Z. Within of Whit.
insville. The papers will continue under the
present management.
Two assignments were made at Montreal
Friday; Benthner Bros, importers, with liza.
bilities amounting to s25, 900, and McDou.
gal, Lousie & Co., paint, oil aud varnish
manufacturers, with liabilities which it il
thought will reach s150.000.
The police inquiry into the arrest of Miss
Cass of London, as an improper character
has been opened. Both Miss Cass and Mrs
Bowman, her employer, whose testimony to
Miss Cass' good character, Magistrate New
ton refused to receive, are represented by
| counsel.
The escape of Q number of miners from
An overfiowing Sturgeon River mine at Met.
ropolitan, Mich, was cut of BY . torrent o,
] water Thursday afternoon, and eight of them